Speech & Language Disorders in Bilinguals

Alfredo Ardila, Eliane Ramos (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2007
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-60021-560-5 (ISBN)

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Integrates the developments on the different aspects of the communication disorders observed in adult bilinguals. This book presents an integrated perspective of bilingualism: from the normal conditions to the pathology; from the clinical descriptions to the rehabilitation issues; from the biological factors to the cultural variables.

During the last years a significant number of papers, books, and monographs devoted to speech and language impairments in bilingual children have been published. Different aspects and questions have been approached and today we have a relatively good understanding of the specific characteristics of the speech and language difficulties potentially observed in bilingual and multilingual children. This interest has been significantly resulted from the potential developmental and educational consequences of bilingualism. Our understanding of the communication disorders in adult populations is notoriously more limited, even though over 50% of the adult population can speak at least another language in addition to his/her native language. That simply means that over 50% of the communication disorders observed in adults are bilingual speech and language disorders: bilingual aphasias, bilingual dementias, bilingual stuttering, etc. This book was written with the specific purpose of filling this gap. The major purpose of this book has been to integrate the state of the art on the different aspects of the communication disorders observed in adult bilinguals. The book is organised in such a way that an integrated perspective of bilingualism is presented: from the normal conditions to the pathology; from the clinical descriptions to the rehabilitation issues; from the biological factors to the cultural variables.

Preface; Bilingualism in the contemporary world; Brain organisation of language in bilinguals; Psycholinguistic models of speech production in bilingualism and multilingualism; Code-Switching and code-mixing in bilinguals; Lexical and semantic organisation and retrieval; Assessment and treatment of bilingual aphasia and bilingual anomia; Stuttering in bilinguals; Bilingualism across life-span under normal and abnormal conditions; Cultural and linguistic diversity in language impairments; Speech and language assessment in bilinguals; Considerations for an Ethnopsycholinguistic Framework for Aphasia Intervention with Bilingual Speakers; Bilingualism and Cognition. The good, the bad, and the ugly of bilingualism; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.8.2007
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, unspecified
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	260 x 180 mm
Gewicht	688 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-60021-560-2 / 1600215602
ISBN-13	978-1-60021-560-5 / 9781600215605
Zustand	Neuware